It’s up to you, cher public: which is the greatest of all opera curtain lines?
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Results will be posted on parterre box tomorrow at noon, so be sure to vote early and often!
The last word: final round
It’s come down to this: the two finalists in the Best Opera Curtain Line competition.
Gabrielle Ferrari
Gabrielle Ferrari is a PhD student at Columbia University researching gender and sexuality in British music, twentieth-century opera, and classical music and popular culture. She has degrees in music and English literature from Southern Methodist University and her Masters in Historical Musicology from Columbia University. If she isn't watching opera, writing about an opera, or reading about an opera, she's probably singing opera. When she's feeling a little bit wild, she dabbles in oratorio and musical theater.
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